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red888
red888

Reputation: 31520

Can I pass the knife.rb to the knife command as an argument?

chef-client v12.15.19 (MSI installer) On Windows Server 2012 R2

Instead of having to be in the directory where knife.rb is located or put knife.rb in one of the pre-determined locations where knife looks for that config, can I just pass it in as an argument?

Example: knife.bat node list -config_file c:\some\other\place\knife.rb

I'm just curious if this is possible because I didn't see this anywhere in the docs. I know I could workaround this with an environment variable and possibly other ways, but I just was wondering if there was an arg to pass the knife.rb directly.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1076

Answers (2)

Zelocox
Zelocox

Reputation: 31

Yes, you can specify but mind the parameters sequence. 

knife cookbook upload my_test_cookbook -c ./knife.rb

You can specify options only after your main command is complete. The same you can check in knife help : Usage: knife sub-command (options)

Upvotes: 0

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 2825

Yes, you can specify a different configuration file. Here's a snip of the knife --help output from the latest Chef 12.x releases (at the time of this writing):

 -c, --config CONFIG              The configuration file to use
     --config-option OPTION=VALUE Override a single configuration option

So you should be able to do knife -c .... I use this regularly to manage different knife configuration files for different hosted chef instances. I don't see it mentioned in any docs explicitly either.

Upvotes: 6

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